Search Printable 3rd Grade Informational Text Reading Worksheets

Kids will learn about sharks as they read this short and informative worksheet.

Your students will work together to find new vocabulary words and create a short summary of a nonfiction text related to the butterfly life cycle. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the Create a Nonfiction Text Summary lesson plan.

Your students will demonstrate their understanding of nonfiction text features, such as caption, diagram, and heading, with this helpful vocabulary worksheet.

Children read a brief history of fireworks, then answer a series of questions designed to help them reflect on what they have learned.

Readers practice identifying the main idea in works of nonfiction in this two-page reading comprehension worksheet.

Children learn about the ways that butterflies like the viceroy and buckeye avoid predators in this engaging reading comprehension worksheet.

This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

Your young learner will discover the basics of local government with this worksheet all about municipalities.

Learners will practice identifying the main idea and supporting in works of nonfiction texts as they learn about the ocean.

Little gardeners, get to know your plants! See the cycle of a plant from its birth to adulthood, and read a bit about photosynthesis too.

Use this reading passage to practice reading comprehension with your learners.

Teachers can use this general organizer template for main idea and details, pre-writing, word analysis, brain dumps, concept mapping, background knowledge collection, and more.

Children will practice using nonfiction text features as they read and interpret a passage about extreme weather.

With this resource, your students will read and compare two nonfiction texts on the same topic.

Use this graphic organizer to support learners' understanding of cause and effect in the books they read.

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

Help students boost their critical thinking and reading comprehension skills with this making inferences graphic organizer.

Children will practice identifying nonfiction text features in this worksheet about the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Children will be inspired by the many ways dogs help their human companions in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

As your students hunt for various text features, they’ll learn that these features provide important information about the text they’re reading!

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

All authors write for a reason, be it to explain, entertain, or persuade their readers. In this activity, your students will consider the author’s purpose of a book of their choosing, then justify their answer.

In this worksheet, children will read a short passage about Day of the Dead, then answer five multiple choice questions.

Use this nonfiction comprehension worksheet to help second and third graders learn all about Misty Copeland, the first African American woman to become a principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre.